Native nursery · Grown from seed
Rare, hardy native trees for a changing climate.
Uncommon oaks, hickories, fruit trees, flowering trees and shrubs for birds and bees. Grown from seed collected off parent trees with proven form, vigor and hardiness.
Why buy here
Climate-ready genetics
Species with wide tolerance of heat, drought and flooding, and seed from parents that thrive at the warm edge of their range in a changing climate.
Rare species, kept alive by planting
Oglethorpe oak, blue ash, leatherwood, red mulberry: the surest way to keep a rare tree in the world is to grow it in a thousand yards.
Habitat, not just trees
Leaf litter, stick piles, exposed root flares and uncompacted soil are half of what makes a tree thrive. Every order ships with planting notes.
Collections
Trees you will not find at the garden center
Scrub oaks, coastal-plain post oaks and southern white oaks you will not find at a garden center.
White, red, bur, pin and the other oaks every yard and woodland knows, grown from seed for shade and for the wildlife their acorns feed.
Acorns and seedlings collected from named, proven parent trees.
Native shade and flowering trees that deserve far more use than they get.
Understory and hedgerow shrubs for birds, pollinators and privacy.
Pecan, hickory, walnut, pawpaw, persimmon and other native food trees.
Native chinquapins, the American chestnut and the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut, grown from seed for nuts, wildlife and a chestnut in the yard again.
Free tools
Decide with numbers, not guesses
Find my tree
Your zone, sun and soil narrow every tree and shrub we grow to the ones that fit.
ZIP code to zone
Your USDA hardiness zone from the 2023 map, with the winter low it stands for.
Planting-site check
A plain verdict on whether a species will thrive, struggle or fail on your site.
Seed sowing planner
When to chill, check and sow acorns, nuts and seed, and when seedlings come up.
Bloom and fruit calendar
A month grid of when every tree and shrub we grow flowers and fruits.
Native trees by state
Which of our trees and shrubs the USDA records growing wild in your state.
Featured
From proven parent trees
From the notebook
The newest articles
Chinquapin or chestnut: telling the four we grow apart
Chinquapin vs chestnut: how a bur, a nut and the underside of a leaf tell the two chinkapins from the chestnuts, what blight does to each, and which to plant.
How fast every tree and shrub we grow gets tall: growth rate, A to Z
The growth rate of the 364 trees and shrubs we grow, all native but one, A to Z: slow, medium or fast, the feet each adds a year and its years to 20 feet.
Ice and snow on trees: what to do with a bent, split or broken tree after a storm
How much weight ice puts on a tree, whether a bent or split tree can be saved, which native trees hold up in ice storms, and what to cut or leave for spring.
Trees for honey
Plant the nectar flow
Black locust and basswood give two of the lightest, most sought-after honeys in the East, and black gum is a good honey tree in its own right. Sourwood, persimmon and summersweet fill the gaps in the season.
See the Honey Tree Trio
